Our next goal? To hit the $3,000 milestone! We can do this. Let's save lives and help find a CURE... Every bit will definitely make a difference.

We're so excited about this challenge, as Mozilla Firefox will be donating $25,000 to the charity that raises the most funds on CrowdRise
between December 13th and January 11th... Soooo, we definitely need
everyone's help. Yep, everyone's. Please join our team. Please donate.
Please join our team AND donate AND tell everyone in the world all about
it too.

Monday, December 26, 2011

Just letting you know that our MCMF Holiday Challenge on CrowdRise has hit the $1800 mark -- Awesome! We're so, so close to $2,000... Who is going to help us reach that incredible milestone? :)

We're so excited about this challenge, as Mozilla Firefox will be donating $25,000 to the charity that raises the most funds on CrowdRise
between December 13th and January 11th... Soooo, we definitely need
everyone's help. Yep, everyone's. Please join our team. Please donate.
Please join our team AND donate AND tell everyone in the world all about
it too.

OK, so here's the new goal: Let's raise another $1K for the MCMF Holiday Challenge by this Sunday- Yay! Please help us save lives & find a CURE.

We're so excited about this challenge, as Mozilla Firefox will be donating $25,000 to the charity that raises the most funds on CrowdRise between December 13th and January 11th... Soooo, we definitely need everyone's help. Yep, everyone's. Please join our team. Please donate. Please join our team AND donate AND tell everyone in the world all about it too. :D

Thank you so much for your amazing support. You are all incredible people. MC

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Awesome! Our MCMF Holiday Challenge is off to a good start... We've raised over $1,000 so far and we have 23 days to go! Let's keep going and help find a CURE for EBV and EBV-Associated diseases, which include blood cancers. We can do this.

The Matt Cwiertny Memorial Foundation needs your help. Join our team. Donate. Join our team and donate. Tell everyone in world all about this so we can make a difference.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Mozilla Firefox will be donating $25,000 to the charity that raises the most money on Crowdrise between December 13th
and January 11th... and how AWESOME would it be if the Matt Cwiertny Memorial Foundation won?!
We can do this!!

PLEASE HELP! Join our
team. Donate. Join our team and donate. Get your friends and family to
join in and donate. We need everyone's help. Let's make certain our 2011
grant makes an impact and saves lives... and please, please help us
start NEXT year's grant off with $25,000! Amazing, right?

So why does this matter so much to us? Here's why we're so passionate about this:

Matt was a 22-year-old junior art director for Marshall Advertising,
who loved the L.A. Galaxy soccer, A.S. Roma, the Flight of the
Conchords, The Dandy Warhols, Jack’s Mannequin, The 88, and Will Ferrell
movies, when he got a really bad case of mono. We thought he'd
recovered until six months later when Matt started getting
extraordinarily high fevers, his blood pressure dropped, and his blood
counts cratered. His doctors were confounded, especially when they
concluded it was not mono. It was only after he went into respiratory
failure that his doctors at USC learned he suffered from EBV-induced
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (EBV-HLH), a blood disorder affecting
only 1 of every 1,000,000 persons (after a bone marrow biopsy, the
doctors decided he'd had mono earlier). While EBV-HLH is not cancer, it
acts and is treated like a cancer. The disorder destroys healthy blood
cells, and is treated with chemotherapy, and a bone marrow transplant,
if necessary. EBV-HLH often induces lymphoma, which it did in Matt. One
month after his EBV-HLH diagnosis, Matt learned he was also battling NK
T-Cell lymphoma, one of the most aggressive and least researched blood
cancers there is.

In December 2008, Matt received his bone marrow transplant. While it
temporarily put him in remission, his lymphoma returned in February
2009, and in June 2009, Matt learned it had returned in the form of an
inoperable brain tumor. After chemo failed to put him in remission, Matt
began radiation treatment. Before finishing it, he was readmitted to
the City of Hope in late September 2009. At that time, Matt was in a
weakened state, with his EBV levels extraordinarily high that it was
debilitating to his liver and kidneys. Unfortunately, the doctors were
unable to administer any treatment that could reverse the affects of the
EBV and its impact on Matt’s vital organs… And at midnight on October
3, 2009, he passed away with his family surrounding him.

Please help us fund medical research for EBV and EBV-associated
diseases, including blood cancers. We need cures and NOW. Let's do this.

About Me

Wanna Become a Superhero?

I'm on a mission to wipe out EBV and EBV-associated diseases, which include blood cancers. My brother-in-law, Matt Cwiertny, passed away on October 3, 2009 at the age of 24--way too young-- from an EBV-induced NK T-cell Lymphoma. My family and I want to make sure other families and patients do not have to endure the nightmare that is battling a blood disease and blood cancer... and we can do that by raising funds and helping to find a CURE.
So that's the story. Help us raise funds for EBV and EBV-associated diseases by going to THE MATT CWIERTNY MEMORIAL website or to our Charity page on Crowdrise. Thank you so much for your support!